When does anticipating group-based shame lead to lower ingroup favoritism? The role of status and status stability

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 334-343

  Shepherd, Lee ^a,b   Spears, Russell ^b,c   Manstead, Antony S R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anticipated emotion; Group based guilt; Group based shame; Stability; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872414638     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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